The boss
Subtitle: a jockey's story
By: Glen Boss.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781405038195
Subjects: Boss, Glen; Jockeys -- Australia -- Biography; Makybe Diva (Race horse); Horse racing accidents -- China -- Macau (Special Administrative Region)
Genres: Biography
Description: In 2005, jockey Glen Boss achieved a racing record  three back-to-back Melbourne Cup triumphs on the legendary mare Makybe Diva. Yet less than four years earlier, this country boy from Beaudesert, Queensland, had suffered a catastrophic fall while racing in Macau, breaking his neck in two places and coming within a hairs-breadth of life in a wheelchair.